On this day: 8 November
Events, births and deaths on 8 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Tatsuya Nakadai
10 years ago2016
- Events · 2016 United States presidential election
- Events · 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation
100 years ago1926
- Births · Darleane C. Hoffman
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1122 · Deaths · Necmeddin İlgazi
- 960 · Events · Battle of Andrassos
- 1115 · Deaths · Godfrey of Amiens
Events · 29
- 960(Julian date)Battle of Andrassos — 8 November 960 engagement fought in an unidentified mountain pass on the Taurus Mountains
- 1576(Julian date)Pacification of Ghent — treaty signed on 8 November 1576
- 1620Battle of White Mountain — battle ending Bohemian phase of Thirty Years' War (1620)
- 1861Trent Affair — diplomatic incident that almost brought the U.S. to war with the U.K. during the American Civil War
- 1889Montana — state of the United States of America
- 1923Beer Hall Putsch — attempted coup d'état in Weimar Republic
- 19321932 United States presidential election — 37th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1933Civil Works Administration — New Deal-era job creation program implemented by the U.S. federal government
- 1936Siege of Madrid — 1936–39 siege during Spanish Civil War
- 1937The Eternal Jew — art exhibition
- 1942Operation Torch — 1942 Allied landing operations in French North Africa during World War II
- 1957Pan Am Flight 7 — 1957 plane crash in the eastern Pacific Ocean
- 19601960 United States presidential election — 44th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1963Aero Flight 217 — aviation accident in Jomala, Finland on 8 November 1963
- 1965American Airlines Flight 383 — 1965 aviation accident in the United States
- 1965Operation Hump — part of the Vietnam War (1965)
- 1968Vienna Convention on Road Traffic — an international treaty designed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by establishing standard traffic rules among the contracting parties.
- 1972HBO — American pay television network
- 1981Aeroméxico Flight 110 — 1981 aviation accident
- 19831983 TAAG Angola Airlines 737 Boeing crash — 1983 plane crash of a TAAG Boeing 737-200 after takeoff from Lubango Airport, Angola; disputably shot down by UNITA
- 1987Remembrance Day bombing — 1987 Provisional IRA terror attack in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland
- 19881988 United States presidential election — 51st quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 19941994 United States elections — elections in the United States in 1994
- 1997nakfa — currency of Eritrea
- 20062006 shelling of Beit Hanoun — 2006 Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip
- 201218th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party — 2012 Party congress
- 20162016 United States presidential election — 58th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 20162016 Indian banknote demonetisation — 500 and 1000 Indian rupee banknote demonetisation in November 2016
- 20202020 Myanmar parliamentary election — 2020 Myanmar general election
Births · 60
- 30(Julian date)Nerva — 12th Roman Emperor (96–98)
- 1572John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg — Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg
- 1622Charles X Gustav of Sweden — King of Sweden (1622-1660)
- 1656Edmond Halley — English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
- 1837Ilia Chavchavadze — Georgian public figure and writer; a saint of Georgian Orthodox Church (1837-1907)
- 1847Bram Stoker — Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)
- 1847Jean Casimir-Perier — 6th President of the French Republic (1847–1907)
- 1848Gottlob Frege — German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
- 1854Johannes Rydberg — Swedish physicist
- 1868Felix Hausdorff — German mathematician (*1868 – †1942)
- 1875Qiu Jin — Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer (1875-1907)
- 1883
- 1883Arnold Bax — English composer, poet, and author (1883–1953)
- 1884Hermann Rorschach — Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1885–1922)
- 1885Tomoyuki Yamashita — Japanese general and war criminal (1885–1946)
- 1893Prajadhipok — King of Siam
- 1897Dorothy Day — American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert (1897-1980)
- 1900Margaret Mitchell — American author and journalist (1900–1949)
- 1908Martha Gellhorn — journalist from the United States (1908–1998)
- 1914George Bernard Dantzig — American mathematician (1914-2005)
- 1922Christiaan Barnard — South African cardiac surgeon
- 1922Ademir de Menezes — Brazilian footballer (1922–1996)
- 1923Jack Kilby — American electrical engineer (1923–2005)
- 1924Dmitry Yazov — Soviet minister of defence (1924-2020)
- 1927Patti Page — American country-pop singer (1927–2013)
Deaths · 60
- 397(Julian date)Martin of Tours — Christian saint (c.316/336 - 397)
- 618(Julian date)Adeodatus I — pope
- 1115(Julian date)Godfrey of Amiens — French Roman Catholic abbot, bishop of Amiens and saint
- 1122Necmeddin İlgazi — Artuqid ruler of Mardin, Turkey (1104–1122)
- 1171(Julian date)Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut — count of Hainaut from 1120 to his death
- 1226(Julian date)Louis VIII of France — King of France 1223-1226 (1187–1226)
- 1246(Julian date)Berengaria of Castile — Queen of Castile and queen consort of Leon
- 1308(Julian date)John Duns Scotus — priest, friar, philosopher, theologian, college teacher
- 1478(Julian date)Baeda Maryam I — Ethiopian Emperor
- 1494(Julian date)Melozzo da Forlì — Italian Renaissance painter and architect (1438-1494)
- 1517(Julian date)Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros — Spanish Catholic cardinal (1436-1517)
- 1599Francisco Guerrero — Spanish composer of the Renaissance
- 1605(Julian date)Robert Catesby — English conspirator (died 1605)
- 1606Girolamo Mercuriale — Italian philologist (1530-1606)
- 1633Xu Guangqi — late-Ming-dynasty Chinese politician, Scholar, Lay Catholic leader and Servant of God (*1562 – †1633)
- 1658Witte Corneliszoon de With — Dutch admiral (1599–1658)
- 1674John Milton — English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)
- 1719Michel Rolle — French mathematician
- 1773Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz — German general
- 1793Manon Roland — French revolutionary
- 1817Andrea Appiani — Italian painter (1754-1817)
- 1828Thomas Bewick — English engraver and natural history author (1753-1828)
- 1830Francis I of the Two Sicilies — King of the Two Sicilies (1777-1830)
- 1887Doc Holliday — gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West (1851–1887)
- 1890César Franck — Belgian-French composer and organist (1822–1890)
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